Real Thai: The Best of Thailand's Regional Cooking

This is my third copy of this book. I keep loaning it out and giving it away. A great starter book for things like pad thai with straightforward instructions. After having this book for many years I’m going to try a few more of the more complex recipes and see how it goes. I’ll let you know but I highly recommend it for the simpler things I’ve tried and are so worth it!

Full of recipes, organized by region, with authentic recipes. One review that I read said that she (the author) suggested using ketchup as a substitute....none of the recipes suggest that! In the opening of the book, she acknowledges that the ingredients listed may be hard to source (written in the 80's) and offers alternatives in that case. All the ingredients listed are authentic and each recipe has a sentence or two that tell about the recipe itself (customary way to eat, typical purpose of meal, origin of the name or recipe, etc.). I find this book to be my go to for Thai recipes. Since the recipes are not organized by type of dish (organized primarily by region as stated before), I use the index quite often. It works and the index is reasonably sufficient. Occasionally, I only have a particular ingredient I want to use and I have to flip page by page to find a recipe it could be used in. That would be incredibly frustrating for some people; however, I don't mind since I enjoy reading cookbooks.

Very nice good recipes

This cookbook is superior to other Thai cookbooks I've owned. Seems very authentic. Highly recommend if you want to increase your Thai cooking skills.

Great easy to read cook book, yes really worth the money.

An excellent intro to Thai cooking and the recipes are all well described and produce authentic, delicious meals. One of the best Thai cuisine cookbooks out there, has been a standard for years. Though brief the informative sections on the different regions also make this an important primer for understanding Thailand's regional cuisines before moving on to larger, more detailed books like those of David Thompson.

Wonderful cookbook and travelogue of Thailand written by a Peace Corp volunteer who fell in love with Thai Cooking and the Thai people she met during her Peace Corp stint. Lovingly written. It inspired me to take my first Thai Cooking Class in Chapel Hill, NC. I am hooked on Thai food. I now grow my own lemongrass in my garden to use in recipes. This is a keeper! Jan Doolin, Chapel Hill, NC

This book is fabulous. Every recipe I've tried has been golden. The only problem is that the recipes are hard to search for. They're organized by region which makes it really hard to look for specific recipes. If I spoke Thai or knew about Thailand's regional food, I'm sure it'd be easier to find recipes.

Dies ist mein Lieblingsbuch für Thai-Küche und ich verschenke es oft. Ich habe damals nach 3 Reisen nach Thailand das Buch gekauft und finde die Rezepte sehr leicht nachzuvollziehen und auch authenthisch. Viele Thai Kochbüche sind voll wunderschöne Bilder und gute Rezepte, aber für das authentische Kochen, greife ich immer auf dieses Buch zurück.

Good cook book.

内容やレシピが全部英語なので私には分かりやすかったのですが写真が一つも掲載されてなかったのが残念。レシピだけだと物足りなく感じました。写真があればもっと見た目や味が伝わったのかも知りません。内容に関してはタイ料理そのもの、、ペースト作りの基本から炒め物、ヤム系、スープ、カレー、etc...